Early Start On The Violin: A Violin method for children aged four and older.

Note reading is introduced from the beginning, and accidentals are explained in the easiest way in the first volume. By the endof the first book, many English children’s songs using all fingers have been played and note values from whole to eighth notes have been introduced. Even the easiest exercises are underlaid with text so that melodies can beperceived as a whole.

The authors:
The original German Violin method was first published in 1976. The author Egon Sassmannshaus is one of the most experienced and renowned Violin pedagogues inGermany.

Forthe new English edition his son Kurt Sassmannshaus worked as co-author and adapted his father’s successful method for English-speaking children.

The combined knowledge and experience of father andson make the four volumes of the Sassmannshaus Tradition the most thoroughly researched and thought-through beginner Violin method in the world.